Shavon
Feminine · “God has been gracious”
Shavon is given to both — 3,898 girls and 368 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Shavon is what an English speaker writes down after hearing Siobhan and not seeing it. The Irish spelling gives no help at all to a reader who does not know the rules, and the phonetic version that results has become a name in its own right, with a family of spellings around it.
How old is the name Shavon?
Shavon first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Shavon alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 3,800 people named Shavon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shavon most popular?
Shavon peaked in 1979, reaching #531 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
Where it comes from
From Jehanne to Shavon
The story of Shavon
Irish spelling is regular, but its rules are not English ones. A b with an h after it is not a b at all: the h marks a softening, and bh is said as a v or a w. So Siobhan is shiv-AWN, and the letters that confuse an English reader are doing exactly what Irish orthography says they should. English speakers meeting the name by ear wrote what they heard, and the result was Shavon, Shevonne, Chevonne, Shivaun and a dozen more. None of them is Irish, and all of them are honest attempts at a sound that Irish had already written down perfectly well in its own system.
Meaning
God has been gracious
Siobhan is the Irish form of the Norman Jehanne, which is the feminine of John, and it carries John's meaning intact through three languages.
How the name formed
- Jehanne
- Siobhan
- Shavon
Related forms: Siobhan · Jeanne · Joan · Sine
Pronouncing Shavon
shuh-VON
Two syllables with the weight at the back. Irish gives the second vowel more length, closer to shiv-AWN, and many families here use that too.
Nicknames for Shavon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 1979358 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #531reached in 1979
- Change vs 2018
- +14.3%8 in 2019, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Shavon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Siobhan in Irish — same name
- Jeanne in French — related form
- Joan in English — related form
- Sine in Scottish — related form
Shavons among us
people named Shavon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shavon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It removes every difficulty the Irish spelling creates, which is the whole reason it exists.
- The name behind it is old, well documented and used across Ireland today.
- It is short, said the same way by everyone, and needs no spelling lesson.
- Irish speakers will read it as a respelling and will usually say so.
- Shavon, Shavonne, Chevonne and Shivaun are all in the record and are confused constantly.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shavons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Shavon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shavon in 2025?
- Shavon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shavon with classmates?
- Shavon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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